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1971 South Korean presidential election

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Field	Value
country	South Korea
flag_year	1949
type	presidential
previous_election	1967 South Korean presidential election
previous_year	1967
next_election	1972 South Korean presidential election
next_year	1972
election_date	27 April 1971
image1	Park Chung Hee (박정희) Presidential Portrait (3x4).jpg
nominee1	Park Chung-hee
party1	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)
popular_vote1	6,342,828
percentage1	53.20%
image2	Kim Dae-jung billboard, 1971.jpg
nominee2	Kim Dae-jung
party2	New Democratic Party (South Korea)
popular_vote2	5,395,900
percentage2	45.26%
map	{{Switcher
title	President
before_election	Park Chung-hee
before_party	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)
after_election	Park Chung-hee
after_party	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)

Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 27 April 1971. The result was a victory for incumbent president Park Chung-hee, who received 53% of the vote. Voter turnout was 80%. Within a year of his re-election, Park declared martial law and introduced the Yushin Constitution, which vested him with sweeping and near-dictatorial powers.

These would be the last contested presidential elections in South Korea until 1981, the last direct presidential election until 1987, and last presidential election in which the victor received an absolute majority of the popular vote until Park's daughter, Park Geun-hye, did so in 2012.

Nominations

Democratic Republican Party

The DRP Convention was held on 17 March 1971, at which incumbent president Park Chung-hee became the presidential nominee. Under the constitution, Park would have normally been ineligible to run in 1971, as presidents were limited to two consecutive terms. However, shortly after his re-election in 1967, the DRP-dominated legislature passed a constitutional amendment allowing the incumbent president to run for three consecutive terms.

New Democratic Party

By tradition, the most senior members of the party leadership were supposed to run for president. It was assumed that either former Korea University president Yu Jin-oh, the sitting party chair Yu Jin-san, or former president Yun Po-sun would be chosen for the party's candidate. However, the norm was broken by lawmaker Kim Young-sam, who was only in his early forties, when he declared his bid for the New Democratic nomination for president on 8 November 1969. He was followed by Kim Dae-jung and Lee Cheol-seung, both prominent politicians in their forties. The party leadership tried to discourage the three candidates at first, but later conceded that it was now time for the new generation to take over. Lee Cheol-seung withdrew his bid and endorsed Kim Dae-jung after the party leadership, including Chairman Yu Jin-san, announced they would be backing Kim Young-sam.

At the convention held on 29 September 1970, the establishment-endorsed Kim Young-sam surprisingly lost to the minority faction's Kim Dae-jung, who became the party's candidate.

Candidate	First round	Second round	Delegates	%
Kim Dae-jung	382	43.16	458	51.81
Kim Young-sam	421	47.57	410	46.38
Invalid/blank votes	82	9.27	16	1.81
Total	885	100	884	100

Results

By province and city

Province/City	Park Chung Hee	Kim Dae-jung	Jin Bok-ki	Park Gi-chul	Lee Jong-yun	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}"		New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}"		People's Party (South Korea, 1963)}}"		National Party (South Korea)}}"
Seoul	805,772	39.95	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	1,198,018	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	59.40	6,881	0.34	4,811	0.24	1,426	0.07
Busan	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	385,999	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	55.66	302,452	43.61	1,974	0.28	2,518	0.36	583	0.08
Gyeonggi	687,985	48.87	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	696,582	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	49.48	13,770	0.98	6,547	0.47	2,995	0.21
Gangwon	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	502,722	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	59.85	325,556	38.76	7,326	0.87	2,985	0.36	1,390	0.17
North Chungcheong	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	312,744	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	57.32	222,106	40.70	6,989	1.28	2,662	0.49	1,154	0.21
South Chungcheong	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	556,632	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	53.49	461,978	44.39	14,411	1.38	5,285	0.51	2,322	0.22
North Jeolla	308,850	35.49	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	535,519	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	61.53	21,162	2.43	3,167	0.36	1,646	0.19
South Jeolla	479,737	34.43	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	874,974	New Democratic Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	62.80	31,986	2.30	4,362	0.31	2,122	0.15
North Gyeongsang	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	1,333,051	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	75.62	411,116	23.32	9,838	0.56	6,438	0.37	2,374	0.13
South Gyeongsang	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	891,119	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	73.36	310,595	25.57	6,793	0.56	4,580	0.38	1,634	0.13
Jeju	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	78,217	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	56.85	57,004	41.43	1,784	1.30	398	0.29	177	0.13
Total	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	6,342,828	Democratic Republican Party (South Korea)}}; color:white;"	53.20	5,395,900	45.26	122,914	1.03	43,753	0.37	17,823	0.15

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]], Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II'', p420 {{ISBN. 0-19-924959-8
Nohlen ''et al''., p465
"의왕시사".
(1992-05-10). "대권 경선사/DJ가 YS에 대역전승/70년 신민당". [[JoongAng Ilbo]].

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